Kuwait Attractions

Kuwait City

In the years since liberation, Kuwait City has developed into a remarkably easygoing place, though not without a price. During the occupation, Iraqis systematically looted the museum. Today, the Kuwait Towers have become city's main landmark, the largest of the three standing a lofty 187m (615ft).

The National Museum, once the pride of Kuwait and its centrepiece, used to house the Al-Sabah collection, one of the most important collections of Islamic art in the world. Having cleaned out the building, the Iraqis smashed everything they could and then set what was left on fire.

Doha Village

On an arm of land jutting out into Kuwait Bay, Doha Village is primarily the site of Entertainment City, a small theme park, but is also home to several small dhow-building yards and a fishing village of squalid shacks where might see some crabs tunneling in the mud flats nearby.